Posted on 11/14/2024 1:57:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Department of Government Efficiency - the DOGE - is an idea whose time has come. In fact, it's an idea whose time came about 1980, but I suppose, better late than never.
DOGE co-chiefs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy appear to be wasting no time.
The sheer magnitude of government waste is staggering to behold!
A deep dive into federal spending reveals some truly jaw-dropping examples of waste that Trump's new DOGE team will tackle:
THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING:
$1.3B sent to dead people
$171M in benefits to prisoners…..
https://t.co/RXxxXrAXoK— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2024
If it doesn’t advance the interests of American citizens, we’re putting it on the chopping block. Amazingly, there are a number of programs whose authorization from Congress has *already expired* yet $$$ still flows out the door. That needs to end next year. https://t.co/nnni6qQSYR— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 14, 2024
It seems they already have their target-acquisition radar set up and are sighting some wasteful animal research projects that we taxpayers are funding for unknown reasons. Some of these projects were called out by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) in his Festivus waste reports. In an email, Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of the White Coat Waste project, lists a few:
- 🇷🇺🐈 $770,000 to a Kremlin-run animal lab that damaged cats’ brains and forced them to run on treadmills
- 🐒🏝️ Tens of millions to fund Fauci's Monkey Island, where the NIH breeds and stockpiles 3,300 monkeys for experiments with COVID and other viruses
- 🐵🎰 $3.6M to get monkeys hooked on cocaine and force them to gamble
- 🐶❄️ $5.2M to inject beagle puppies with cocaine
More recently, WCW has exposed millions more in ongoing wasteful government spending including:
- 🐕🇨🇳 NIH funding for dog testing in China and other Chinese animal labs tied to the PLA and CCP
- 🙀🤢 NIH funding for motion sickness experiments where kittens are spun around to make them nauseous
- 🐈⬛💩 DOD funding for constipation experiments where cats have marbles shoved up their butts and are electro-shocked (DOD)
- 🐭🔫 EPA tests that force mice to inhale gun smoke from pistols and rifles
This is, of course, barely scratching the surface. Oh, the DOGE, essential as their purpose is, is already facing pushback from the usual suspects, but Elon and Vivek simply aren't having any of it. Of course, both of them are essentially invulnerable. They both have "eff-you money" - what kind of lawfare can you level against the richest man on the planet that won't simply be overwhelmed by Elon just dumping piles of money on it? That is just one of the many reasons these two are the perfect selections for this Herculean task.
See Related: Vivek and Elon Tag Team to Wreck Elizabeth Warren After She Attacks Dept. of Government Efficiency
Of course, were Senator Warren to ask my opinion, I could give her 36 trillion reasons why this should - nay, must be done.
A Herculean task this is, obviously; this makes the cleanup of King Augeas' stables look like a poop-scoop after Fluffy lets one go in the city park.
The DOGE will, of course, not only focus federal spending on the kind of stupidity noted above. They will - they better - also focus on the Brobdingnagian federal bureaucracy, which everyone with enough brains to pound sand knows is feather-bedded beyond belief. I've been saying for years that, were I for some reason elected president (which would be difficult, as I have no intention of running for the job), one of my first acts would be to visit every federal agency and department in the executive branch, talk to each and every employee, and ask them two questions:
"What is your purpose here?"
"What are you doing right now?"
Anyone who did not answer to my satisfaction would be told, "You're fired. Get out."
Let's hope the DOGE gets let loose on the bureaucracy as well. So far, it looks like they plan to swing a Viking war-axe at federal spending. They even have libertarian hero Ron Paul chiming in.
See Related: Ron Paul Throws His Support Behind Trump, Revels in the Collapse of the Mainstream Media
All I have to say about that is: It's about damn time. Let the DOGE out, Elon and Vivek. Let the DOGE loose on Big Government; let go of the leash and yell, "Sic 'em!"
It's going to be fun to watch.
prayers for their success.
Godspeed, DOGE.
prayers for their safety!!
It's like shooting bureaucratic fish in a barrel.
Amen. God please shield all the workers of good will and righteousness.
In the application they want someone to work 80 hours a week among other things.
They will find the young warriors.
John Bolton has had a team of security officers outside his residence for years blocking the streets. Cut that out.
Nothing will change as long as everything has full funding every few months via a CR. Unless ole Trumpey shuts the bloated beast down, completely, NOT just 15% that really shuts down, he isn’t that serious. I’m pulling for the guy but last time he signed off on every CR + trillions of $$$ in government and NGO prizes.
I’m sure these 2 non-government folks are serious BUT they will not and cannot actually do anything. They must submit a report by July 2026!
So NOTHING but full funding for a year and a half???
And one more time for the folks that are still drunk on Trump Euforia, I am praying and pulling for the man and his team...
Dept of Dismantling the Unconstitutional Portion of Federal Gov't
AKA DRAIN THE SWAMP AND NUKE THE DEEP STATE!!!
Without Jesus, the only thing that has eternal life is a government program.
My reply to those Government Agencies who start whining is SCREW YOU... Let the BIG DOGS RUN!
There is not enough time in a man’s life to talk to each federal employee.
They can start with a full audit of the money sent yo Ukraine.
And if a full accounting cannot be done, funding ends immediately.
Submit a report by July 2026...
And tweet their findings any and every day...
Even before Trump assumes office.
With zero chance of being deplatformed or deleted..
With the added benefit of being amplified by the Oval Office anytime from Inauguration Day 2025 on..
nice to have Twitter, Truth Social and the White House to show full transparency from a govt Beast that started their war on Trump by spying on his campaign in 2016..
prayers for their safety!!
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Yes, anytime you are take away the feeding trough expect serious backlash from the hogs.
1st top to bottom restructuring of the US Federal Government bureaucracy in over 100 years. Way past time for it
I would think many of the waste issues could be solved by management focus requiring no Congressional involvement. Like stopping payments to dead people should just me a management directive to make it happen, run a report monthly and ensure it never happens again.
"Who Let the DOGE Out? Elon, Vivek Already Targeting Wasteful Unconstitutional, Unaccountable, Elite Desperate Democratic and RINO Vote-Buying Federal Taxing and Spending"
There! Fixed it.
Trump supporters are reminded that the repealable (hint) 16th Amendment (direct taxes) is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime imo.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
“What would you say it is you do here at Initech?”
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